Of these, the US has received 133 million doses of vaccine, accounting for about a quarter of people vaccinated worldwide. India has administered 91 million doses. Poor countries are lagging far behind richer countries in vaccination.
The World Health Organization has called on rich countries to donate at least 10 million doses of vaccine to ensure that every country in the world can start the COVID-19 vaccination program within the first 100 days of 2021.
Meanwhile, the number of new cases is still increasing at a worrying rate, of which more than 500,000 cases were recorded worldwide in the past week alone.